Rory said:
> >>>>> "Jochen" == Jochen Hayek <JHayek_at_eps.agfa.be> writes:
>
> [question about installing fvwm2.0.45 snipped]
>
> Jochen> Just as all modern GNU stuff:
> Jochen> tar ztvf PACKAGE.tar.gz
> ^
>
> I think this should be 'zxvf'. Otherwise the archive is not
> extracted, but rather the files contained in it are listed to stdout.
Yes.
I don't think all tar's cope with this though, best to unzip and
then untar.
> Jochen> cd PACKAGE
> Jochen> ./configure
> Jochen> make
New to me.
> Does fvwm have a 'configure' file? I compiled 2.0.45 last week and the
> process was:
>
> edit Fvwm.tmpl
> make Makefiles
> make
Sigh. And you missed out the 'xmkmf' stage.
The process is:
gunzip package.tar.gz
tar xvf package.tar
cd package
more README
more INSTALL
[do what those files say!]
This is the foolproof method!
> I compiled v2.0.45, realised I'd left out a critical '/' in one of the
> paths in Fvwm.tmpl, so made the change to that file, and started the
> process again. The trouble was that 'make Makefiles' didn't rebuild
> the Makefiles in the directories fvwm, modules/*, etc. It was no
> problem, as I just deleted all of the old Makefiles and ran
> 'make Makefiles' again, but shouldn't make detect the change in
> Fvwm.tmpl (which, after all, affects xmkmf's output in this case).
Surely you really wanted to do a 'make clean'?
That should've sorted you out nicely.
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Received on Thu Feb 13 1997 - 16:37:48 GMT